The SSS-rank Guide Doesn't Need Saving novel Chapter 85

Chapter 85: Two Crazy Sentinels

However, with how things are right now, she felt it might be difficult for her to extricate herself from either one of them.

She needed to find an opportunity where she didn’t have to deal with either one of them.

The herald brought that opportunity to her like a dish served on a silver platter.

"Lady Aisha, please allow me to escort you elsewhere."

Aisha felt Nykos go still behind her. As his cold, dry voice sounded above her, she heard the lack of a solitary note of emotion. For a second, she felt the air condense and become thicker.

Nykos was using pressure against the herald. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

"And where would you be taking her?"

The arctic chill in his voice pierced through her eardrums. He tightened his arms around her, pulling her flush into his arms so that she could feel every hard muscle on his body press against her back.

Heat involuntarily crept into her body.

It wasn’t just about the close proximity of their bodies, but the warm breath that fanned over the shell of her ears.

Aisha admitted it had been one of her weak spots and didn’t dare try to open her mouth, fearing that a different sound would come out of her lips.

"The lady will stay here."

Suddenly, Zeke’s perpetually calm and cool gaze landed on the herald again.

"B-but His Majesty ordered it!" the herald squeezed out his words, suffocating under the pressure that Nykos had centered around him. The veins on his body popped out in thin and thick lines, almost bursting from the way it felt like his entire body was being pressed between two rocks.

Zeke’s expression darkened, and his eyes narrowed dangerously. "Why does His Majesty want to see the lady?"

The herald hurriedly spoke, feeling as though he might explode into pieces of flesh and blood like the palace walls if he didn’t rush his answer. "I... I don’t know! But if the lady disobeys, she will face punishment from His Majesty!"

Aisha couldn’t help frowning slightly as the herald finished speaking. Although she had expected it since she heard it the first time when he called out to her earlier, it was still rather unpleasant. What did the emperor want from her that he would want to meet with her?

During the ceremony, Aisha had been acutely aware of the emperor’s gaze on her, but she only assumed that he was looking at her because she was his son’s fiancée. She guessed that he wanted to take back the money the prince had given her, yet he failed to do so in public.

But if it were the case, there was no need for the emperor to wait until the ceremony was over to tell her to come to see him.

Rather, the best time to do it was right after the ceremony or when the Novalis family was dragged away. It would’ve been easier to accuse her of deceiving the crown in cahoots with her adoptive parents than this.

In the end, Aisha couldn’t tell what the emperor wanted from her.

After mulling the situation over, she began to compose her response. If the emperor wanted the money returned, there was no other way for her to go against it. He was the ruler of this planet, and he could easily make things difficult for her.

It was better to give him the money if it was only that... she could look for other ways to survive.

"I will go."

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